COliver Sacks Foundation
Celebrating the work of Dr. Oliver Sacks: neurologist and author of Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia, and more. 🧠📚 “The poet laureate of medicine.” New York Times Oliver Sacks, M.D. was a physician, a best-selling author, and a professor of neurology at the NYU School of Medicine. He is best known for his collections of neurological case histories, including The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain and An Anthropologist on Mars. Awakenings, his book about a group of patients who had survived the great encephalitis lethargica epidemic of the early twentieth century, inspired the 1990 Academy Award-nominated feature film starring Robert De Niro and Robin Williams. For more information about the Oliver Sacks Foundation, please visit www.oliversacks.com To book tickets for the UK/Irish premiere of Ric Burns' award winning documentary 'Oliver Sacks: His Own Life' visit: www.altitude.film
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Celebrating the work of Dr. Oliver Sacks: neurologist and author of Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia, and more. 🧠📚 “The poet laureate of medicine.” New York Times Oliver Sacks, M.D. was a physician, a best-selling author, and a professor of neurology at the NYU School of Medicine. He is best known for his collections of neurological case histories, including The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain and An Anthropologist on Mars. Awakenings, his book about a group of patients who had survived the great encephalitis lethargica epidemic of the early twentieth century, inspired the 1990 Academy Award-nominated feature film starring Robert De Niro and Robin Williams. For more information about the Oliver Sacks Foundation, please visit www.oliversacks.com To book tickets for the UK/Irish premiere of Ric Burns' award winning documentary 'Oliver Sacks: His Own Life' visit: www.altitude.film